Sentences with phrase «economic boom accompanied»

[8][9] An economic boom accompanied the development of the Summerland field, which transformed the spiritualist community of Summerland into an oil town in just a few years.

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Although Brazil's energy - hungry economic boom has driven the nation to tap the Amazon's vast hydroelectric potential, the resulting deforestation accompanying its dam projects has reduced the available waterpower

One persuasive theory proposed by economist Richard Easterlin is that the postwar period witnessed a combination of two basic forces which encouraged optimism and relaxed earlier constraints on marriage and having children: an unprecedented demand for goods and services otherwise known as the postwar economic boom; and an accompanying shortage of labor.

While commentators speak of the familiar specter of a boom and bust economy and ruminate on present displacement and future ruins, Valenzuela muses on «the aesthetic of ruins without the social or economic failures that accompany them.»